The complete chloroplast genome of the invasive plant Senecio vulgaris L. (Asteraceae)

Abstract

Senecio vulgaris is an annual or biennial invasive weed. The complete chloroplast is 150,806 bp in length, containing a large single-copy region of 82,950 bp and a small single-copy region of 18,214 bp. It encodes a set of 113 genes, consisting of 79 protein-coding, 30 tRNA, and 4 rRNA genes. 14 genes (atpF, ndhA, ndhB, petB, petD, rpl2, rps12, rps16, trnA-UGC, trnG-UCC, trnI-GAU, trnK-UUU, trnL-UAA and trnV-UAC) have a single intron, and two genes (clpP and ycf3) possess double introns. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed that the cp genome of S. vulgaris is closely related to that of Jacobaea vulgaris.

Keywords

• senecio vulgaris
• chloroplast genome
• invasive weed
• phylogenetic analysis